Hotel Americano Trujillo

... br>Left Peurto Sal on Thurs 12th Nov and had full day drive through desolate, barren and seemingly unendless desert. Not seen scenery like that before and it is amazing to think that Peru (6x size of GB) has mass area of desert on coastal side, rises into the Andes and then Amazonian jungle on the west. We´re in Peru for 3 and half wks so plenty to experience and see...including Paddington when deepest darkest Peru is reached.<br>After bush camping in the desert the ...

... came out in the wash. The second pyramid fared a little better and you can see the colourful wall paintings of their gods in the photos.<br><br>Chan-Chan was built by the Chimu from about 700 AD to 1400, when the Inkas turned up. It really is a massive site, of the same scale as a modern town, but you can only look round one of the king&#8217;s compounds. This included lots of carvings in the mud of all ...

... the lines wrapped around a block of wood. A bucket of live baby crabs and cockels sat next to her as she cracked and created more of the lines. We almost walked past but took a step back and decided to buy one. Why not? <br><br>Not being a master of fishing, the lady bated me up a couple of hooks with cockles and we went to join the rest of the angling hopefulls dangling their lines into the water below. I was playing around pulling the line up and down when ...

... study, ate alone again (cant be stuffed talking to anyone again), some more study and off to bed. Pretty happy to just lay low and conserve some funds until Allan gets here from now until the 27th.<br><br>Thursday 22nd October <br>Last day in Trujillo/Huanchaco area.<br>Up early to take some photos of town, the beach, and these local fishing boats they have made of reeds all bound together. Amazing these things even float after having a close look at a couple.<br>Headed into town ...

... by Peruvian automobile insurance, called SOAT. I explained that I had asked at the border about getting insurance and they told me it was not required for foreigners in transit in Peru. "Mal informaciones" the cops told me and they showed the line in their little book saying there was a fine of 426 soles each ($142) and said they would have to write up a violation. I said ...

... this and moves on to prattle about other things. I try to ignore the fact that this three-year-old can talk Spanish circles around me.<br><br>With the ruins of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the world, we move forward several hundred years to the Chimu people. The Moche people, as with most Pacific coast civilizations were victims of dramatic El Nino cycles, which caused torrential rainfalls in their normally desert climate and the ultimate collapse of their empire as their mud ...

We decided to go on a little trip south of Trujillo to visit the Moche temples of Huaca del Sol and Huaca del Luna. We got a taxi to take us there; it was a pimped out vehicle if ever I saw one: some kind of alpaca dashboard cosy that the driver was very proud of and sporadically kept stroking to demonstrate this pride, and also a DVD screen in the passenger side visor. I was loving this, given that Ii was sat in the front, and that it ...

... viewer please let me know, so it wont take so long to upload. also, what´s ¨resize¨in spanish please let me know that too since none of the computers have english.<br><br>tomorrow is officially one month! 6.5 more to go. and yay, 10 days till karim and lisa get to cusco and we meet up. and 1.5 months till cam gets here! hurrah!!!<br><br><br><br>

... town close to Trujillo, before the end of the day.<br><br>It was cold at the deserted sandy beach in Huanchaco. We still had our jackets on as we strolled along the sand, watching the rough waves coming into shore. There was a white horse just standing on the beach, with a saddle and a large black decorated cowboy hat on its back. The owner was sitting close by, presumably waiting for tourists to pose next to the cowboy horse or more likely, to go on a ...